*** I am currently looking for interesting opportunities either Contract or Permanent.*** On leading teams... "we all perform better if we have a degree of ownership of what we do" "over the long term, attitude will invariably trump ability" On software development... "simple and working, trumps fancy and broken" "success is not shipping a feature, success is solving the user’s problem"

Head of Development @ Leading the technical team to deliver the Money Dashboard application across all platforms. Key responsibilities and achievements: - Managing a team of software developers, testers and application support to ensure consistent delivery of high quality software - Responsible for the delivery of the application across all platforms; desktop, tablet and mobile - Introduction and champion of agile development methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) - Identifying and managing a backlog of technical debt to ensure a culture of continuous improvement - A range of responsibilities including Scrum Master, Product, Project and Release Management, Operations and Web Analytics From July 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 6 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomApplication Architect @ Leading the development of the Money Dashboard application. Key achievements: - Stabilised and secured a poorly designed application to ensure that it would scale and support growth - Established a development framework and best practices including TDD, continuous integration & Scrum - Worked closely with product marketing partners to design and implement a comprehensive tracking solution - Mentoring and providing technical guidance to a team of software developers - Implemented a BI solution to support and grow a data business From December 2012 to July 2014 (1 year 8 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomTechnical Consultant @ Providing technology consultancy, principally on SQL Server best practice, replication troubleshooting and solution architecture. From November 2012 to November 2012 (1 month) Associate Director @ Worked in the Production Operations team, designing, developing and maintaining the platform for delivering Barrie & Hibbert calibration and scenario set subscription services. Focused on increased stability and scalability, risk reduction, documentation, performance improvements and process simplification by making use of appropriate technologies e.g desktop applications, web applications, cloud (Azure/AWS) From March 2012 to October 2012 (8 months) Database Specialist @ Performing a hybrid role of Database Architect, Administrator, Developer and Analyst in order to deliver database enabled services and applications. From September 2009 to March 2012 (2 years 7 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomSoftware Consultant @ Contract Role. Integrated a 3rd party email software service to enhance throughput and manageability. Provided consultancy on Microsoft SQL Server design, development and implementation tasks. From July 2009 to September 2009 (3 months) Product Consultant @ Microsoft SQL Server consultant and AutoRek consultant. Responsible for designing, building, deploying and optimising solutions for clients based upon the SQL Server suite of technologies, with emphasis on the Database Engine and Integration Services. Providing best practice SQL Server consultancy for clients estates including design, implementation, optimisation and documentation of solutions. Fulfilled a role of editorial leadership for a fledgling internal Sharepoint intranet to encourage team collaboration and knowledge transfer. From August 2008 to July 2009 (1 year) SQL Server DBA @ Recovering Incidents and resolving Problem Records while ensuring the continued availability and performance of critical SQL Server databases. Developing new and enhancing existing production support processes to maximise the effectiveness of the Production Support DBAs and its cross team relationships. Spearheaded an initiative to reduce the SQL Server physical footprint by moving tactical deployments to virtual environments, a move considered radical and a challenge to the status quo at the time. This role required a significant amount of On-call support. From August 2007 to August 2008 (1 year 1 month) SQL Server DBA @ Contract role. Support of the SQL Server estate including troubleshooting performance problems. Providing documentation and project plans for corporate technology projects. From May 2007 to July 2007 (3 months) Solutions Architect @ Managed the database development team and relationship with service providers. Managed and developed SQL Server databases for business critical applications to ensure optimum performance and maximum uptime, in particular for the largest UK job website. Responsible for design and deployment of IT architecture and a thought leader in choice of hardware and software platforms. From 2000 to 2007 (7 years)

BSc, Management @ The University of Manchester From 1995 to 1998 Richard Brown is skilled in: Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, SSIS, Business Analysis, Database Design, Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Innovation, Solution Architecture, Scrum, C#, SSRS, Database Administration, Software Documentation, .NET